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Show BRITISH WAR BRIDE TELLS OF TRIP TO UTAH Mrs. Marjorie Sherwood, wife ot Jim Sherwood of Minersville, is an English lass who met her husband hus-band while he was serving with 'the United States Army in the European theater. Along with many hundreds of other British wives of American soldiers, she came to America as soon as regulations regula-tions would permit, and has joined her husband and taken up residence resi-dence in Minersville. Following is her account of the trip from her home to Utah: We left my home at Reading Berkshire, on Monday, February ISth, and went to a reception camr where we had to stay for a week in order that papers might be completed, com-pleted, fingerprints taken, etc., ano passports issued. On February 24th we left the reception camp to gr to Southampton and board the Queen Mary. We sailed at 4 p. m the same day. We arrived at New York on Friday Fri-day .about 3 in the afernoon. Navy wives disembarked there, but wr others, whose husbands were not meeting us, stayed on board overnight. over-night. The sea was quite calm all the way over but nevertheless many wives (including myself) were seasick. sea-sick. All the children stood the voyage very well, and very few were sick. We were very much impressed by the Statue of Liberty and by the reception given us at New York. A special train was put on from New York to Chicago, where we changed trains. During a six-hour wait at Chicago, Chi-cago, we were taken to the Red Cross center, where everyone wa; very kind to us, taking care of the babies while we had a meal, and giving us boxes of sandwiches cakes and sweets to take with us. I arrived in Milford at about t o'clock on the afternoon of March 5th. Altogether the journey was" quite uneventful. I believe we passed through eight states on our way from New York to Milford, but seen from the train window, Utah was by far the most beautiful of all. We had never seen such mountains just miles and miles of them. Everyone was very kind to us all the way over, and could not dc enough for us. Everything was done for our comfort. The Red Cross people were always ready tc help if we needed any information 1 or assistance. We were very glad to get here and to be able to walk on firm ground again, and very happy tc see my husband again and to be1 able to meet his family. I like Minersville and Milford very much, and the people are great people It has been grand meeting them all It was very hard leaving my parents and brothers and sisters but perhaps we will all be able tc I see them soon and maybe some day Jim's family will be able to meet my family. They were all very upset to see us leave, especially espe-cially the children Linda, my daughter, and Brian, my adopted son. I met Jim at a dance when 1 was introduced to him by my later, la-ter, wh6 has since married a boy in the Royal Air Force. We were" married on January 15th, 1944. He was sent over to Germany In June, and he came to England in February, 1945, when he saw Linda for the first time. She was seven weeks old. We had not seen him since, until Tuesday. At the time that I met Jim I was working as a pay clerk at the Royal Army Pay Corps. My father works as an engineer on one ot the river steamers that run up and down on the River Thames. I know that we are going to be very happy over here in this country, coun-try, amongst these people. |